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An-Naml · Ayah 48
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Translation
And were
Word Breakdown
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Grammar Rules
Past tense verb
وَكَانَ (And were) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.
We translate it in past tense — "did", "created", "said", etc.
Conjunction وَ (and)
وَكَانَ (And were) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".
We add "and" to connect this to what came before.
Sahih International
And there were in the city nine family heads causing corruption in the land and not amending [its affairs].
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